44:53 - Richard Doyle was the voice of The Fury from MGS3. Solidus was voiced by the late John Cygan.

this game is really hard to understand at some points, so thank you for making it a lot more understandable

Amazing! MGS4 is personally my favorite game of all time, and I’m glad you took the time to make such an amazing video about this behemoth of a story :DDD

Love this series that you are doing. Metal Gear Solid 4 is still may favorite PS3 game of all time and I actually purchased the limited edition of it before I even owned a PS3. Keep up the incredible work.

For the first time in 15 years I feel like I finally understand the story of MGS4 😂 thank you and great video. You have a calming voice and I love your narration.

Damn this brought me back to the old days I remember I was so hyped for this game when it first launched at that time. Fantastic job on this video, now I myself want to go back and play this game too.

this was honestly one of the best breakdowns of the game iv ever seen, absolutely beautiful what you put together. one of my favorite games of all time but when i played them i was to young to understand but with your breakdown and from what i remember it all makes sense now

This was so so so well done. Thank you for making this

I love these types of videos and this one is very well done. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this! This game was my childhood and it's so nice to have organized people like you appreciate and compile all the art/work that went into this game. Again, thank you :3

NICE JOB!!!!!! Loved your video! Not a single video explaining the story like yours!

This is a genuinely great recap. It's quick but thorough. I appreciate it, thank you!!

Great work Amanda. I enjoy it. Thanks 🙏🏻👍🏻🙂 you make me smile in some parts😅

This was a damn good story of video. Mgs4 holds a special place in my ❤ and you brought back tons of memories

I have this thing on my phone that recommends me news articles and sometimes videos i never really click on it but I'm only a couple minutes in, you have a very natural feel to you idk I've never seen any of your videos before, and idk don't know how the hell you ended up in my feed but you did, keep doing what your doing I hope your well.

these videos are wonderful. beautiful way to represent the series w/o getting bogged down in the nitty gritty details. showed this to my friends so I wouldn’t have to send them an 8 hour lore video. thank you for your hard work!

Saved me 9 hours of cutscenes. You’re amazing, thank you!

Thank you for the recap, You can tell you're emotionally invested in the franchise. Great Video.

Awesome video! I can tell you really love this game and franchise. I don't think I'll ever understand MGS because the real story seems to exist outside of the games, but they're great games none the less!

Thank you for this story breakdown. 4 came out at a changing point in my life, so I never got to play it as much as 1-3. And after watching some videos about the series, I realized that it had been *ages* since I played this, partly because it never escaped PS3 exclusivity. Given what a monumental undertaking, even understanding so much about the storyline of 4. Making this video must have taken a lot of effort, but you nailed it. It also seems ironic now that this game is probably the main reason Kojima felt like ‘long cutscenes’ were overkill, and opted for dozens of audio tapes in MGSV instead.

That was really well explained. Thanks

Thanks for this. Really useful. I am replaying MGS4 after a few years and trying to follow the characters motivations and plot drivers can be quite confusing, especially when you are easily distracted during cutscenes.

Thank you so much! Excellent summary. Way better than playing the game because I can go back whenever I didn't understand something... which happens way too often

i have no idea why I cried now, in this ending when snake could live the last days in enlighten company. Namaste

I've been playing all the metal gear games for the first time for the last couple weeks, and I spent DAYS trying to get this game to work on a ps3 emulator and finally gave up. I was really bummed that I'd have to watch it instead, but this video was a great middle ground between watching all the cutscenes without context and getting some much needed explanation. Thank you for such a great video!

Such a well put together video. Very funny too, lots of nods to things only veteran fans will understand. Bravo 👏

I played when I graduated high school too! After mgs1 this is my second favorite mgs game. This one certainly left the greatest impression on me after completing it and having the series end at that point was such a bitter sweet experience, but it was incredible non the less.

Great recap! I loved your humor. I wish I knew people like you irl

So good. Please keep making videos!

Honestly I'd love to see you do one for every metal gear this video was awesome

Ty so much for this video! After playing mgs 1, 2 and 3 I have no way of playing 4. This video helped me finish the story.

Just stumbled upon your channel. Instant sub.

You told this so well. I watched the whole thing. Brava.

metal gear solid holds a very warm place in my heart. one of my family members would play the games a lot, and since i was young (mgs4 came out when i was 2) i usually watched instead of playing them. i was on and off with the series - i'll play it from time to time still, but when i saw solid snake in fortnite, i just had to replay the games lol. these games are still really good despite their age, and the story of the series is my favourite out of every game franchise i know

42:51 YEAAAAAAAAAAHHH Also, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for covering my favorite video game of all time. This game, and by extension this series, means the world to me for so many reasons.

Man, I played this game ten years ago, and due to medical reasons I forgot a lot of it, ALOT, Thanks for reminding me and for the Nostalgia

Incredible summary of an incredible game. Wow this brings back good memories

Marry me, -Johnny "Akiba". MG has long been my favorite franchise. And I play Snake Eater, and G.O.T.P. every few years. What exquisite attention to detail you were able to condense into under an hour. The solidus clone/liquid arm can quickly get very confusing and leave you lost. I had to beat the game like 6x to understand the whole plot. It's funny a lot of thing happening today, Kojima predicted through his games in a round about way. 11/10 video👌

Literally loved this

I just started playing Metal Gear Rising and wanted to learn more about the franchise and started with this since this is the other metal gear game I played a little bit what a wonderful way to explain the story not overly complicated you put a lot of personal touches and you obviously love this franchise turned on the bell and subscribe so I don't miss another video

That’s awesome that you can interact with the wolves like you could in mgs 1. The heart thing is an Easter egg ! And also of course it was Johnny. The guys outside the prison cell in every mgs game are named Johnny 😂 in metal gear 3 he says “my dads a Johnny, my brothers a Johnny, and I’m a Johnny”

Thank you for helping me understand this game

This is perfect for a mgs fan, your vids are the best

Just wanted to leave a comment on this great video - hope more people get to see it

Excellent video. idk why some people hate on this game. It's my second favorite MGS game behind MGS2. It's so epic.

45:46 It WAS Liquid possessing him in MGS2, and there is plenty of actual evidence and canon supplementary materials supporting that. I've gone into it in several comment sections, so I am a little tired of laying it out over and over again, but if you'd hear me out, I could do it again if you asked.

I'm late to the party and I'm enjoying every minute

12:57 kinda like how Aeldari from Warhammer 40k psychically suppress and split their personalities with the Warmask ritual. They paint a rune of their war god onto their foreheads aaaand if you aren’t from their craft world they can do *anything* to you and don’t care who or what you are, non combatant or not, and when not fighting they take it off and have no memories of anything they did. Unless they can’t and then they become an exharch…

I’m playing playing through the metal gear solid games and unfortunately I can’t play this one because it’s only on PlayStation 3 so I’m glad you’ve made this video (I’m really desperate to play mgs5 lol)

One of the best game I have played and experienced

Thank you for that

How jhonny feels after not being affected at all:

please do metal gear solid for ps1! i love your videos and your story recaps!

This game is literally the endgame for the entire "Codename: Snake" saga.

Cant believe this is only 1.6k views

Last game I played was Snake Eater and wanted to learn more about this game but don’t have the time to play it now. I also graduated in 2008 haha.

Kojima said that game was half finished not unlike MGSV but I think what was cut was gameplay not the story, it concludes pretty much everything

Richard Doyle wasn’t Solidus,John Cygan was.

I just finished playing MGSV and I was SOO confused what the hell happened? I really want to understand the story but it was soo confusing because I've only played a little of each game prior. I've search all KZfaq and your videos were the best of explaining the game story. I've watched all your MGS videos and I have to thank you for clarifying the story. MGSV made a lot more sense now...I think?...

Alot of new and recent viewers, many things about this game becoming more and more relevant

I can't believe your school offered MGS4 as a graduation gift America is definitively out of our World In a good way

This video is shorter than the cutscenes😂

Crazy how much mgs was was adapted from this

I think Hideo want to end the story here...then he create MGSV for the sake of new combat experience.

12:36 I laughed so hard at this 😂

Shuddup I'm not crying YOU"RE CRYING! In all honesty. This was the first game I ever pre-ordered. I was super mad that GameStop didn't do a midnight release so I had to wait until they opened the morning. I got there to beat the rush and I was the ONLY person there. I have never been more ashamed of my town.

I played this game when I was young but I didn’t understand anything then. Noe I get what’s going on somewhat.

SNAAAAAAAAAAKE! 🐍

you really need to do Metal Gear Risingg

Mgs4 is also 50 years after snake eater.

I love the overall story, but mgs4 is the favorite part i think.

0:59 knowing how guns work, and how astronomically many there are out there, I don’t know how such a system could be made to work. As many aks there are out in the world, it’s just economically impossible. 1:16 giant walking drones are a lot worse than a swarm of insectoid drones that could fly or climb on walls and have a small caliber weapon system like the 5.7 or that one 4.whatever one the mp7 uses and they just literally cling to walls poles and everything and just swarm around picking out headshots or just hole poking you. It’s also why the battle droids from Star Wars and terminators are functionally stupid

I love the animated codec calls. I wish there were other MGS games that had it. Something about it makes it way better to listen to. Different atmosphere knowing ur boss is in some comfy office while you're in clandestine war operations is unique....ok big gripe i have here... If the Patriots were born during the Cold war how is it in metal gear solid 2 that oticon says the Patriots have been dead for over a hundred years... I know each game was written as they were made and they pretty much thought that each game they made was going to be the last but that still seems like a very large inconsistency or am I missing something??

I thought you were gonna say except this time she's black. Not that she was afraid of the wolves haha. As well as I know these games, your synopsis of them is amazing!!!

37:34 it’s almost like she shouldn’t use a bespoke bullshit gun like a desert Eagle that has low capacity heavy magazines.

I heard the cidec thought i got a text

I didn't know if I wanted to get XBOX 360 or PS3, so I figured I'd get whatever handled Kingdom Hearts 3 better. I ended up going with XBOX 360 because of Dead Space, and there hasn't been a remake of MGS4 yet, so I didn't really know what happened until now, so thanks;)

Richard doyle 44:54 didn't voice solidus in mgs 2 it was John Cygan

hurry up konami , release the pc version of metal gear 4 this year , we are tired of waiting

"FallOut disagrees" 😃

Raiden can stop a boat but he can't grab snake and move him out of the way???

So how did Liquid possess an arm?

mga4 gets a lot of hate i feel. but was always a banger to me tho. ii acc love the long custscenes. POST EDIT just atsarted a new file haven't played in years. goood times

At some point I turned into an exclusive PC Gamer so I never got to play this MGS. I watched a full playthrough of MGS4 to at least catch up on the story, my main disapointment was how uninspired an boring the B&B Squad was compared to the charismatic villians we had to fight in 1 and 3. Otherwise epic game.

wait your school gave you mgs4??

Drebin sells naked guns. 🤓

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Hey Amanda I'm not sure if you reply to these but I was looking at some of my older videos and came across this old Metal Gear Solid video I made when I would working on a certain series years ago. If you ever have time could you give me your thoughts on it. As a fellow MGS SUPERFAN it would be great to get some feed back from someone who loves this franchise as much as I do: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5yXeLyA0K7Xnmg.html&lc=Ugz53RTGhxbEx1gG2M94AaABAg

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The truth about every metal gear solid facts .. snake and radien In ever metal gear where puppets of the patriots every game. Big boss told snake at the end .you don't need to be a puppet no more also. But it's common sense especially with Raidens big shell scene. . You can tell the entire radien game. That he was on the wrong team

MGS4 may be a really flawed game (compared to the rest of the main games) but it was great conclusion to the "Solid era" (MGS 3 and 5 being the "Big Boss era"). It's hard to appreciate the game if the player hasn't done MGS123 beforehand because of the many references to the previous games. And I can appreciate MGR:R a bit more because it's an alternative sequel to MGS4

My only problem with MGS4 is how we are told that Snake has 6 months of life. that was very cruel from Kojima. Snake is a beloved character. That adds to his heroism but DAMMM! I guess we never knew how things end up for him in those 6 months.

2:59 its not a tank, its an APC

Welp… war in Ukraine is highlighting how easy this dystopian storyline can come to reality. ex: Russia’s heavy reliance on mercenary company, Wagner.

My least favourite in the Solid Snake's saga. Kojima's Hollywood direction started to show here with Beauty and the Beast unit. Instead of using Shinkawa's art Kojima wanted to increase the costs by 3D scanning celebrity models faces in Los Angeles. If I play a game I want to escape from reality and not to be remind of reality. That is not authentic. MGS4 paved the way for MGSV and Death Stranding. All characters are now 3D scanned by celebrities. The costs goes right up. If MGS trilogy was like an art film then MGS4 was a MISTAKE. I don't blame Takashi Mizutani, So Toyota, Tomokazu Fukushima, Yutaka Negishi, Ryosaku Ueno, Juntaro Saito, Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Scott Dolph, Takahiro Omori, Tetsuya Wakao, Masahiro Yoshinaga for parting ways with Kojima.